Simon schuster jan 2006 (14 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teen girl's harrowing descent into drug addiction-a cautionary tale as heart-wrenching, shocking, and timely as ever.January 24th After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs. It started when she was served a drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth-and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - That the world has changed and is continuing to change at a rapid pace is not news. People are much more aware of everything around them. The consumer revolution has accelerated dramatically. But something vital is missing in all of this change. Leadership has not kept up with the changes going on in the world. From boardrooms to classrooms, leadership is being challenged on a daily basis yet now a new leadership model has been given.Dr Covey introduces the four roles of the new leader - modelling, pathfinding, aligning and empowering - and how those qualities can change you and your organisation. He discusses how trust can be lost throughout organisations and how it is imperative that any organisation bring trust back to the company if it is to survive. Covey also shows how to go from what he calls a 'want to' person to a 'can do' person and how doing so can completely transform people and organisations.Through his ideas, one will discover how to:Use the four vital roles to establish trust and make growth a given; build and sustain an atmosphere of respect and openness; keep and inspire your most talented workers; apply creative co-operation to reach new levels of performance; develop leadership at every level of your organisation; take advantage of strengths and compensate for weakness; reduce cynicism and improve morale.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The biggest danger in the world today is not the asking of questions, but the assumption that we have all the answers. WHAT GOD WANTS This book, from the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Conversations with God, is dangerous. Why Because it explores with startling freshness the most important question you could ever ask -- and offers with breathtaking courage the most extraordinary answer you could ever imagine. That answer is so theologically revolutionary and spiritually empowering that it could change the course of human history. If embraced, it most certainly will change your life. There are people and institutions in the world, long in place and long in power, that want neither of these outcomes to occur. They would rather that you put this book down right now. When was the last time you read a dangerous book.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Transporting us from Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to Key West, Vowell has crafted a narrative that is much more than a historical travelogue it is the disturbing and mesmerising story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including film, literature, and the author's favourite historical tourism. Skilfully belying the undercurrents of loss and violence that course through her journey, Vowell injects a range of lighter detours along the way, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult and exactly how Lincoln's Republican Party became Bush's Republican Party. Assassination Vacation is a fascinating, informative, and richly entertaining look at the myriad ways in which political assassinations have altered and shaped our nation's history. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini blends danger, courage, and romance in this novel of antebellum America in the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series.Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the novel follows Dorothea Granger's passage from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery. She discovers that a quilt she has stitched for her uncle Jacob with five unusual patterns of his own design contains hidden clues to guide runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. The heroic journey she undertakes leads to revelations about her own courage and resourcefulnessnewfound qualities that may win her the heart of the best man she has ever known.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of Storytelling World Award Américas Commended ListIn Latin American culturewith its blend of Indian, Spanish, Catholic, and African influencemagic is a part of the everyday world. Momentos mágicos, or magic moments, can come in many forms. For storyteller Olga Loya, magic occurs every time an ancient story is passed from teller to listener. The sixteen stories here are full of momentos mágicos. Presented in equally vibrant English and Spanish, they include stories of the supernatural, such as the Mexican tale of La Llorona, the Wailing Woman; of animals and tricksters, such as the Mayan story of how Monkey tricked Crocodile; of strong women, like Blanca Flor (White Flower); and myths, such as La Diosa Hambrienta, the hungry goddess. In stories from Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, the Yucatan, Nicaragua, Baja California, Puerto Rico, and the Mayan Popol Vhu, Olga Loya works her magic to create humorous, vital, and powerful renditions of centuries-old legends. These bilingual and multicultural stories will learn the importance of fairness, respect and caring.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Legends of lost Revolutionary War gold, hidden colonial silver, buried civil war loot, and more!Did Fat Patty Cannon really rob and murder at least 37 businessmen and then bury the stolen gold near her Delaware treasure Has British General Edward Braddock's lost payroll, secreted by soldiers in a Maryland cave, every been found Could a workman actually scatter a fortune's worth of emeralds on the ground, thinking the green stones were mere playthings Comprised of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, the Mid-Atlantic States are rich in history, culture, legend, and lore. This twelfth book in W.C. Jameson's Buried Treasurecollection offers thirty tales of this region that have remained largely uncollected and unpublished for generations. Lost mines, buried loot, caches of gold and silver ingots, gangsters, Indians, pirates, chests of precious stones--such are the ingredients of a rich stew of folkloric treasure gathered from a melting pot of America. These legends of lost fortunes will teach readers about courage, responsibility and resourcefulness.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sometimes laughter is the best medicine.In the midst of all that may bother uscrime, drugs, poisons in the water, poor healthpeople still take time to make each other laugh. If you listen on the street corners, in the cafes, at the kitchen tables of America, you'll hear people telling funny stories and jokes. Hometown humor helps pull us through. In this book, Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler have gathered the best of America's hometown humor. The selections range from one-liners ("My wife's cooking was so bad, the flies got together to mend the screens") to epigrams ("To do good is noble, but to tell others to do good is also noble and a lot less trouble"), to longer stories (like the one about why the Devil tried to give Oral Roberts, Jim Bakker, and Jimmy Swaggart back to St. Peter after they were assigned to his place). Contributors include regular folks, as well as celebrities like Sarah Ophelia Cannon (a.k.a. Minnie Pearl), Tom T. Hall, John Ed McConnell, the late Sen. Sam J. Ervin, and the nine students of the Clinton County Elementary School in Clinton County, Kentucky. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of 18 stories serves as both a historical teaching tool and a method for exploringslavery.From African roots to the present day, scholar and storyteller Rex Ellis animates the African-American experience, weaving the strands of African folklore, early American history, and contemporary interpretations into a rich quilt. His stories spin a thread from the Windward Coast of West Africa to the shores of Jamestown and beyond. He uses storytelling as both a historical teaching tool and a method for dealing with controversial subjects. Ellis's unique style of storytelling educates, informs, and inspires courage and trust. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Psychic art is about contacting the creative source and thinking outside the box of our own limitations. This can lead to extraordinary results, the ability to paint portraits of people you don't know, indeed being able to draw and paint and compose without training. With the right tools, and a clear sense of purpose, we can all develop our ability, learning to enter altered states at will, to produce art that exceeds our normal expectations.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teen girl's harrowing descent into drug addictiona cautionary tale as heart-wrenching, shocking, and timely as ever.January 24th After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs It started when she was served a drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youthand ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 212 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From internationally bestselling author Cathy Kelly comes a heartwarming story of three sisters who are about to discover thateven within a close-knit Irish familylooks can be deceiving.In the Irish country town of Kinvarra, the Miller girls seem to have everything. Stella, a single mother and brilliant attorney, has the serene beauty of a Renaissance Madonnaand a long-awaited second chance at love within reach. Tara, a television soap writer, has just married her soulmate after a whirlwind six-month romance. And Holly, shy and striking, lives an enviable bohemian life, surrounded by artists and inspiration in her beautiful apartment, where her own creative gifts finally have room to breathe. Have there ever been three more fabulous sisters Their mother, Rosecalm, elegant, and unchangingis about to celebrate her fortieth wedding anniversary. But as plans unfold for what promises to be the party of the decade, cracks begin to show. Beneath the polished facade of the Miller family lies buried truths and unspoken sorrows. As long-hidden heartaches rise to the surface, Rose and her daughters must confront what they've kept from one anotherand discover whether honesty will break them apart or lead them, at last, toward a deeper and more enduring happiness.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From international bestseller Stephen King, a high-concept, ingenious and terrifying story about the mayhem unleashed when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs.There's a reason cell rhymes with hell. On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. He's already picked up a small (but expensive!) gift for his long-suffering wife, and he knows just what he'll get for his boy Johnny. Why not a little treat for himself Clay's feeling good about the future. That changes in a hurry. The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature.and then begins to evolve. There's really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clay, an arrow points home to Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north they begin to see crude signs confirming their direction. A promise, perhaps. Or a threat. There are 193 million cell phones in the United States alone. Who doesn't have one Stephen King's utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn't just ask the question "Can you hear me now " It answers it with a vengeance.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teen girl's harrowing descent into drug addictiona cautionary tale as heart-wrenching, shocking, and timely as ever.January 24th After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs It started when she was served a drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youthand ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. 212 pp. Englisch.…